Deglaciation of coastal south‐western Spitsbergen dated with in situ cosmogenic 10 Be and 14 C measurements
ABSTRACT The Svalbard–Barents ice sheet was predominantly a marine‐based ice sheet and reconstructing the timing and rate of its decay during the last deglaciation informs predictions of future decay of marine‐based ice sheets (e.g. West Antarctica). Records of ice‐sheet change are routinely built w...
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crwiley:10.1002/jqs.3058 2024-06-02T07:58:36+00:00 Deglaciation of coastal south‐western Spitsbergen dated with in situ cosmogenic 10 Be and 14 C measurements Young, Nicolás E. Lamp, Jennifer Koffman, Toby Briner, Jason P. Schaefer, Joerg Gjermundsen, Endre F. Linge, Henriette Zimmerman, Susan Guilderson, Thomas P. Fabel, Derek Hormes, Anne Svalbard Science Forum by the Norwegian Research Council 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3058 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fjqs.3058 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/jqs.3058 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Journal of Quaternary Science volume 33, issue 7, page 763-776 ISSN 0267-8179 1099-1417 journal-article 2018 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3058 2024-05-03T10:58:39Z ABSTRACT The Svalbard–Barents ice sheet was predominantly a marine‐based ice sheet and reconstructing the timing and rate of its decay during the last deglaciation informs predictions of future decay of marine‐based ice sheets (e.g. West Antarctica). Records of ice‐sheet change are routinely built with cosmogenic surface exposure ages, but in some regions, this method is complicated by the presence of isotopic inheritance yielding artificially old and erroneous exposure ages for the most recent deglaciation. We present 46 10 Be ages from south‐western Spitsbergen that, when paired with in situ 14 C measurements ( n = 5), constrain the timing of coastal deglaciation following the last glacial maximum. 10 Be and in situ 14 C measurements from bedrock along a ∼400‐m elevation transect reveal inheritance‐skewed 10 Be ages, whereas in situ 14 C measurements constrain 400 m of ice‐sheet thinning and coastal deglaciation at 17.4 ± 1.5 ka. Our in situ 14 C‐dated transect, combined with three additional 10 Be‐dated coastal sites, show that the south‐western margin of the Svalbard–Barents ice sheet retreated out of the Norwegian Sea between ∼18 and 16 ka. In situ 14 C measurements provide key chronological information on ice‐sheet response to the last termination in cases where measurements of long‐lived nuclides are compromised by isotopic inheritance. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Ice Sheet Norwegian Sea Svalbard West Antarctica Spitsbergen Wiley Online Library Norwegian Sea Svalbard West Antarctica Journal of Quaternary Science 33 7 763 776 |
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ABSTRACT The Svalbard–Barents ice sheet was predominantly a marine‐based ice sheet and reconstructing the timing and rate of its decay during the last deglaciation informs predictions of future decay of marine‐based ice sheets (e.g. West Antarctica). Records of ice‐sheet change are routinely built with cosmogenic surface exposure ages, but in some regions, this method is complicated by the presence of isotopic inheritance yielding artificially old and erroneous exposure ages for the most recent deglaciation. We present 46 10 Be ages from south‐western Spitsbergen that, when paired with in situ 14 C measurements ( n = 5), constrain the timing of coastal deglaciation following the last glacial maximum. 10 Be and in situ 14 C measurements from bedrock along a ∼400‐m elevation transect reveal inheritance‐skewed 10 Be ages, whereas in situ 14 C measurements constrain 400 m of ice‐sheet thinning and coastal deglaciation at 17.4 ± 1.5 ka. Our in situ 14 C‐dated transect, combined with three additional 10 Be‐dated coastal sites, show that the south‐western margin of the Svalbard–Barents ice sheet retreated out of the Norwegian Sea between ∼18 and 16 ka. In situ 14 C measurements provide key chronological information on ice‐sheet response to the last termination in cases where measurements of long‐lived nuclides are compromised by isotopic inheritance. |
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Young, Nicolás E. Lamp, Jennifer Koffman, Toby Briner, Jason P. Schaefer, Joerg Gjermundsen, Endre F. Linge, Henriette Zimmerman, Susan Guilderson, Thomas P. Fabel, Derek Hormes, Anne |
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Young, Nicolás E. Lamp, Jennifer Koffman, Toby Briner, Jason P. Schaefer, Joerg Gjermundsen, Endre F. Linge, Henriette Zimmerman, Susan Guilderson, Thomas P. Fabel, Derek Hormes, Anne Deglaciation of coastal south‐western Spitsbergen dated with in situ cosmogenic 10 Be and 14 C measurements |
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Young, Nicolás E. Lamp, Jennifer Koffman, Toby Briner, Jason P. Schaefer, Joerg Gjermundsen, Endre F. Linge, Henriette Zimmerman, Susan Guilderson, Thomas P. Fabel, Derek Hormes, Anne |
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Deglaciation of coastal south‐western Spitsbergen dated with in situ cosmogenic 10 Be and 14 C measurements |
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Deglaciation of coastal south‐western Spitsbergen dated with in situ cosmogenic 10 Be and 14 C measurements |
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Deglaciation of coastal south‐western Spitsbergen dated with in situ cosmogenic 10 Be and 14 C measurements |
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Deglaciation of coastal south‐western Spitsbergen dated with in situ cosmogenic 10 Be and 14 C measurements |
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Deglaciation of coastal south‐western Spitsbergen dated with in situ cosmogenic 10 Be and 14 C measurements |
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deglaciation of coastal south‐western spitsbergen dated with in situ cosmogenic 10 be and 14 c measurements |
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Norwegian Sea Svalbard West Antarctica |
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Antarc* Antarctica Ice Sheet Norwegian Sea Svalbard West Antarctica Spitsbergen |
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Antarc* Antarctica Ice Sheet Norwegian Sea Svalbard West Antarctica Spitsbergen |
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